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From the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms comes this example of a communication you can deliver to your elected officials regarding nominating Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court: [Sen.] or [Rep.] [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME] Washington, DC RE: Reject The Anti-Gun Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination Dear [Sen.] [LAST NAME]: As [...]

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My primary tool. Taurus PT1911 in .45ACP. Stainless steel Brazil-made clone of John Moses Browning’s classic M1911A1, the standard-issue side arm for the United States armed forces from 1911 to 1985, this one in 8+1. Nice trigger for stock, with slide and body and barrel fitted to each other. PT1911, .45ACP, M1911A1Spread The Word:

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5 of 5, from Forbes.com: Lie Five: Patients don’t have to fear rationing. Obama has been insisting, including during his ABC Town Hall event last week, that the rationing patients would face under a government-run system wouldn’t be any more draconian than what they currently confront under private plans. This is complete nonsense. The left [...]

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4 of 5, from Forbes.com: Lie Four: A public plan won’t be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly. Obama has repeatedly claimed that forcing private plans to compete with a public plan will simply “keep them honest” and give patients more options–not lead to a full-blown, Canadian-style, single-payer monopoly. As I argued in my [...]

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3 of 5, from Forbes.com: Lie Three: Government can control rising health care costs better than the private sector. Ignoring the reality that Medicare–the government-funded program for the elderly–has put the country on the path to fiscal ruin, Obama wants to model a government insurance plan–the so-called “public option”–after Medicare in order to control the [...]

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2 of 5, from Forbes.com: Lie Two: No new taxes on employer benefits. Obama took his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, to the mat for suggesting that it might be better to remove the existing health care tax break that individuals get on their employer-sponsored coverage, but return the vast bulk–if not all–of the resulting [...]

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1 of 5, from Forbes.com: Lie One: No one will be compelled to buy coverage. During the campaign, Obama insisted that he would not resort to an individual mandate to achieve universal coverage. In fact, he repeatedly ripped Hillary Clinton’s plan for proposing one. “To force people to buy coverage,” he insisted, “you’ve got to [...]

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I am the flag of the United States of America. My name is Old Glory. I fly atop the world’s tallest buildings. I stand watch in America’s halls of justice. I fly majestically over institutions of learning. I stand guard with power in the world. Look up and see me. I stand for peace, honor, [...]

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OK, let’s get away from all the screaming headlines and global half-truths and examine the real story. From author/journalist Kari Lydersen: When Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the left-center Liberal Party was elected president of Honduras in November 2005, many in the country and internationally heralded him as the latest member of Latin America’s “New Left” [...]

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From FOX News: A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency‘s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. [...]

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By Michael Z. Williamson at Political Humor: That the best way to avoid an accidental shooting is to stay completely ignorant of guns and never go near them, just like the safest way to avoid an accidental drowning is to stay completely ignorant of swimming and never go near water. That it is reasonable for [...]

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